Hey guys. I am having a problem with my neck pickup.
Couple days ago, while I was playing, the neck pickup ('59) suddenly sounded very weak. It was not completely dead but the sound was very weak - almost acoustic. And when I roll the tone knob off to 0, the neck pickup went dead silent. The bridge pickup (JB) was doing fine but when I had the pickup selector in the middle position, I could not tell the difference between the bridge and the middle position.
So I took it to a local guitar shop, told them the issue and the tech initially thought the problem could be either:
1. Grounding issue (most likely)
2. Bad pickup selector (somewhat likely)
3. Dead pickup (least likely)
He then opened the back up to check the wiring for grounding issues and combed through the wires only to see that everything was in order and looked fine.
Next, he plugged the guitar into an amp and, all of a sudden, the thing was working fine. The neck was full sounding and I could definitely tell the difference between the bridge and the middle position and the neck did not go silent when the tone knob was rolled off to 0. (This whole scene made me look like an idiot)
Came back home and guitar was doing fine so I thought maybe it was just some sort of a fluke and the problem was fixed.
But, of course, last night the problem came back. Same problem as mentioned above. Bridge pickup is fine but it's only the neck that sounds weak.
Is it my pickup dying?
Need some help/advice please!
Thanks in advance.
Couple days ago, while I was playing, the neck pickup ('59) suddenly sounded very weak. It was not completely dead but the sound was very weak - almost acoustic. And when I roll the tone knob off to 0, the neck pickup went dead silent. The bridge pickup (JB) was doing fine but when I had the pickup selector in the middle position, I could not tell the difference between the bridge and the middle position.
So I took it to a local guitar shop, told them the issue and the tech initially thought the problem could be either:
1. Grounding issue (most likely)
2. Bad pickup selector (somewhat likely)
3. Dead pickup (least likely)
He then opened the back up to check the wiring for grounding issues and combed through the wires only to see that everything was in order and looked fine.
Next, he plugged the guitar into an amp and, all of a sudden, the thing was working fine. The neck was full sounding and I could definitely tell the difference between the bridge and the middle position and the neck did not go silent when the tone knob was rolled off to 0. (This whole scene made me look like an idiot)
Came back home and guitar was doing fine so I thought maybe it was just some sort of a fluke and the problem was fixed.
But, of course, last night the problem came back. Same problem as mentioned above. Bridge pickup is fine but it's only the neck that sounds weak.
Is it my pickup dying?
Need some help/advice please!
Thanks in advance.
